James Hogg · CatalogJames HoggJames Hogg · CatalogJames Hogg (1770-1835), the Ettrick Shepherd, was a largely self-taught Scottish shepherd who became a poet and novelist.
James Hogg (1770-1835), the Ettrick Shepherd, was a largely self-taught Scottish shepherd who became a poet and novelist. He helped Walter Scott gather ballads for the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, won fame with The Queen's Wake (1813), and wrote for Blackwood's Magazine. His dark masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, appeared anonymously in 1824.
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“How delightful to think that a justified person can do no wrong!”
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, published anonymously by James Hogg in 1824, is a Scottish novel told in three parts. First an unnamed editor, writing more than a century after the events, tells the story as tradition and documents preserve it.